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I did the math on this the other day. It only comes out to about $2.75 a month over two years that you need to save to purchase a new battery from Apple. With that being said, just use and enjoy your phone how you wish. It’s cheap to replace a battery. Chances are you will trade in or sell it before you need to replace it.

Use the battery however you want. It's a bit better to avoid 0% and 100%. There's a setting in the thing to never charge above 80% if that gets you through a day.

I have the same phone and I just use it. I suppose some people still hang onto those old battery tricks but I'm not so sure they work with these modern smart batteries, if they ever worked. Just put your screen protector and case on and use it.

Thank you everyone for all the input! I’m definitely going to disregard what I’ve been told before lol

Sorry if it was a dumb question, I just want to make sure I’m doing the right thing with this new phone. This is my first brand new phone on my own plan after my parents passed. I appreciate you all!

Batteries decay. They just do. A battery could be unused and essentially “brand new” in terms of use but have sat for so long it has decayed to the point of inefficiency. With batteries the more often you have to jump it back to life from zero the sooner the battery will go bad. You can really see this example with car batteries. Say someone has a starting issue and just decide to jump the battery when it dies. Well that battery will only be able to handle so many discharges/recharges before it just won’t hold a charge anymore.

Letting the battery go below 20% would actually slightly harm it, so no, no truth to this. That being said, just use your phone. It doesn't matter. The headache of "battery management" would save you maybe 5% battery health over 2-3 years, if even that. Not worth it.

Thats how you fast track a battery replacement. Modern lithium based batteries prefer to stay between 20 and 80%. But honestly you should just charge as you need. Charging over night without the optimized charging enabled is not great tho

dont ever open the battery section just use your phone

apple gives you a discount on your next iphone purchase if you have never opened the battery setting

I use 20/80 most of the time. Can’t think of many times I’d be worried about needing my phone to definitely last as long as possible with no access to power.

Just use your phone how you like to use it but charge it from a 5W charger.

It doesn't fucking matter, Jesus Christ, just use your phone

I think most people's interest in their phones run out faster than their batteries.

Does it actually smells like a curry and if yes which flavor?? I am looking to get one too soon.

I also upgraded to 15 pro max from 11 pro max. Huge contrast! Don’t think you gotta let the battery run out. On the other hand though, you shouldn’t let it sit and charge for very long. I’ve heard letting it sit and charge while at 100% can shorten the battery’s life.

I can’t get my 15PM to die lol so I’d be screwed!

That’s an old practice that is no longer needed today. The batteries that was being used in older battery tech has a chemistry in them that you need to calibrate the first time you use it (the discharging and charging you mentioned there).

Newer battery tech don’t need to do this anymore.

There have been no reasons to do this for many, many years now.

Working in phone repair, we always tell people after doing a battery swap to charge it to 100%, keep on the charger for a couple hours after that, then run it down to 10-15% before plugging it back in, do that 3 times. Just to kinda help "break in" that new battery, from there it's whatever you want to do.

i have iphone 8 and i will never update , not because i cannot afford it , i invest my money in other things for my future , i used to buy iphones since childhood i mean my parents did and i never had an android. use it with pride bro